Year: 2015
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Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature brought to you by the Broke and the Bookish. You rub the magic lamp and out pops a genie. You know he’s a different sort of genie than the ones you’ve heard of before, books are sticking out of his pockets and there’s ink all over his fingers–clearly…
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The only image in my mind that goes with “Rasputin” is from the animated movie, Anastasia, which features him as a (mostly) undead man read: zombie, with a talking bat and a creepy reliquary he sold his soul to. That is the beginning and the end of my knowledge of him–the “holy” man that brought down…
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This was actually one of the hardest books to choose a dish from. There were so many good options from nachos and guacamole to mu shu pork, to an apricot-plum smoothie with wildflower honey. But ultimately, it was the coconut pancakes that called to me because, I mean, how could they not? There is nothing…
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The full title of this work on non-fiction is A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette’s Perfumer, which really helps to explain the whole premise of the biography. Jean-Louis Fargeon was a man with Republican leanings and an aristocratic clientele, and his story gives insight into how the country was split by the French Revolution.…
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I don’t know what it is about some books, but from the moment I see the cover or hear the title of the book, I’m instantly convinced that it is a book I MUST read. They are usually quiet books like The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, which is another book I love. I…
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Tasha Alexander’s book doesn’t include very many mentions of food. It’s mostly a part of the general scenery, but it does play one important role, which is to highlight the tension between toeing the line of society’s rules and flaunting them. Some of the food is the height of what English society expects while other…
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My best friend is really into the Mortal Instruments series. She listens to them during her commute and I think she’s on the fifth book right now. She loaned me the first one, and I have to say that it reminded me a lot of Twilight–not in actual story details–but that the pace, interesting setting,…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by the Broke and the Bookish. So at first I struggled with this topic because I don’t usually quit reading books. Either I like the book and finish it, or I don’t like it and don’t start it. Most of the books I quit were…
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I do not advise trying to read this book early in the morning before you’re fully awake because if you’re anything like me (i.e. you don’t speak French) the sheer amount of French names/places in this book will make your head spin. However, once you’re fully awake, if you’re interested in the history of this…
Allison Burris 